For all practical uses, I agree, but there is really no difference between the two in theory.

lumen is a unit for how much light/energy is emitted per time unit, and whether you have 1k 1-lumen lightsources, or 1x 1000 lumen, doesn't matter, as the systems both emit the exact same amount of energy per second.

If you disagree with what I've written here, read #103, and complain if that doesn't clear things up.

Look at it this way.
Each torch puts out about the same amount of power. What you're doing is putting all of those in a paralell circuit with each other.

Much like an electrical grid, powering 7 light bulbs, the paralell circuit isn't adding any more power (Or in the case of a circuit, taking away power as it passes through one bulb to the next) You're just adding more of the same effect.

So yes, you'll have "more" light, but it won't be any more powerful than one is individually. Granted, it will still burn like a motherfucker, because you got 7 4100 lumen lights. The point is that it's not adding up. It's just adding more of the same.

My name on skype is daentraya (if fj still had the ability to have capital letters in names, it would have been dAEntraya as an uncreative variation that then referenced that i have a deviantart profile of the same name) If, when my game can run dark souls with more than like 8 frames per second, we can work out the finer details. It might take some time. The wizards in this house are tardy.

I still seriously need more youtuber. I have already exhausted the ones i know who fits my criteria of not having to look at the ******* screen